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So just how do you count everyone in a large country like the US, and once you’ve gathered all that data, how can a machine be instructed to sort and organise the information so it makes sense to someone?
In fact, how do we even program computers to sort data? Sorting is a fairly easy thing for people to do, we do it every time we want to play a game using cards. However what process would we take when using a computer?
In this video I go through the history of why it’s necessary to automate this task, the people involved and then look at several sorting algorithms – bubble sort, insertion sort, quick sort and merge sort.
